Applied Ethics A Non-Consequentialist Approach

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Description: Recent years have seen the revival of the application of moral philosophy to contemporary practical problems, and a corresponding explosion of books on the subject. Most of these books, however, defend approaches that are consequentialist orMore...

Recent years have seen the revival of the application of moral philosophy to contemporary practical problems, and a corresponding explosion of books on the subject. Most of these books, however, defend approaches that are consequentialist or specifically utilitarian in nature. Applied Ethics, and its companion volume Moral Theory, provide a viable alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy. Applied Ethics focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment, and war. Applied Ethics and Moral Theory, make an important contribution to contemporary ethical debates, which will be useful both to undergraduates and professional philosophers.

David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time, Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach, Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach, and numerous articles in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and related subjects.

Preface and Acknowledgements

Abortion

The Problem of Abortion Today

The Basic Argument and Some Responses

Sentience: A Bad Argument Against Abortion

A Return to the Basic Argument

Objection from Brain Activity

Objection from Sorites Paradoxes

Objection from Begging the Question

Objection from Sperm and Egg

Objection from Fission and Totipotency

Objection from Cloning and Parthenogenesis

A Feminist Argument for Abortion

The Foetus, the Person and the Person

Abortion, the Law and the Public Good - a Concluding Note

'I Personally Disapprove of Abortion But Would Not Impose my Opinion on Other People

''It is Not the Business of the Law to Interfere with Such a Difficult Decision

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